Software Engineer

The Opportunity

We create exceptional, easy to use, high quality products that lead the commercial real estate industry into the future and delight our customers. To achieve this, our developers work closely with their Product team members to build and improve our industry-leading products. We are looking for someone to build, maintain, and refine our CRE marketing tools, regularly shipping backend (Rails) and frontend (React) features.

How You'll Contribute

Consistently and quickly build and launch excellent software by:

• Understanding our customers and their needs

• Engineering elegant and practical solutions

• Iterating on and polishing your work to meet the standards for Buildout Quality

You’ll also:

• Work within our milestone-based feature development framework, helping your team lead break large projects into well-scoped, estimable components so work starts with a clear plan and multiple engineers can contribute in parallel

• Work with your team's Product Manager and UX Designer to ensure everyone is on the same page and the user experience is consistently great

• Help your team maintain Buildout Quality by performing thorough and timely code reviews, pairing on difficult issues to share knowledge and drive accountability, and delivering excellent software on a timely basis to lead by example

• Set and achieve Buildout-sponsored personal and professional goals with your team lead

What Makes a Great Candidate

• Multiple years of product software development experience within a SaaS company, or the ability to demonstrate you've learned enough in less time to still be a great engineer and valuable team member

• You use AI as a force multiplier throughout the software development lifecycle

• You communicate well across engineering, product, and design, and enjoy solving problems collaboratively

Technical Skills

• Ruby/Rails: Deep knowledge of Rails will help you get up and running quickly. Our app uses standard Rails features plus tools for design, business logic, and background jobs.

• JavaScript/React: Strong JavaScript foundation with experience in React. We’re modernizing legacy JavaScript, so curiosity about new tools is valued.

• Testing: Testing is a natural part of your process. We use RSpec and Jest, with growing Playwright end-to-end coverage.

• Other web tech: Git for source control, Slim for view templates, customized Bootstrap for CSS, MySQL, and AWS. Passion for new technology is welcome.

AI-Native Development at Buildout

Engineering at Buildout is AI-accelerated by default. Claude Code is our primary development agent with Claude and Cubic reviewing every PR. We expect AI to be embedded across your implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation work as repeatable workflows, not occasional autocomplete.

We look for:

• Delegation: Knowing what to hand to an agent, what requires your own hands, and when AI is the wrong tool.

• Description: Framing problems with enough context and constraint that AI output is useful, iterating rather than accepting.

• Discernment: Catching subtly wrong code, missing edge cases, and security issues in AI output.

• Diligence: Owning everything you ship. Delegating work but not accountability.

Our technical interview reflects this: you’ll use AI tooling on a realistic problem, and we’ll watch how you prompt, validate, and push back.

What Success Looks Like

• 90 days: Shipping production PRs within your first few weeks, with Claude Code embedded in your workflow, and delivering your first feature under our milestone framework.

• 6 months: Owning feature-level work end to end and contributing meaningfully to automated test coverage.

• 12 months: Trusted to scope and estimate large projects, with other engineers learning from your AI-assisted workflows and code reviews.

Perks & Benefits

• Impactful insurance and benefit options, including 2 medical plans, 100% coverage of employee dental and vision premiums, HSA seed, company-paid STD, LTD, life insurance, telemedicine, and a $400/year wellness benefit

• Flexible PTO, 14 paid company holidays, paid parental leave, and give back days

• 401(k) with 4% company match and immediate vesting

• Fully remote work culture with $600/year remote work reimbursement and annual in-person company kickoff

• Challenging problems to solve with a supportive team invested in your growth

• A quirky culture where you’re encouraged to bring your whole self to work